It was my second visit to the town of Sittwe, in Burma’s western Rakhine state this year, and my third visit to the country itself in six months. Prompted as much by what seemed like fate as opportunity, I had journeyed once again to this part of the world in order to write about the plight of the Rohingya ethnic minority, a stateless people whose suffering and increasing proximity to disaster are not well-known in the West.

As citizens deeply concerned about the ongoing violence in Burma, we call on you to press the Burmese President to urgently protect the Rohingya using all means necessary, and grant them citizenship and full legal rights when you meet with him this month. We urge you to insist he implement such measures and tackle the impunity of aggressors to stop the violence as a condition of improved trading relations. You have both spoken repeatedly about the need for early action to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity — now is the time to live up to those words.

A heightened security presence and a state-imposed Section 144 curfew has failed to prevent more arson attacks in the town of Thandwe in Rakhine state.

A major bus station in Ann Daw Ward is the latest target by arsonists after a spate of attacks in the area since June 30, following the alleged rape of a young Buddhist woman.

Residents near the bus station alerted police that they could see flames about 9.30pm on July 2.

U Nyi Nyi She, a worker at the bus station and also a resident of Ann Daw Ward, told the Myanmar Times by telephone that he had seen at least two buses and the main building had been torched, but the fires didn’t spread further as security arrived in time to extinguish the flames.

Burmese self-proclaimed no.1 media, Eleven Group, accuses the world renowned Time magazine of possibility of bribery behind its July 2013 issue today.

During past week, Burmese netizens shocked over Time’s cover of July 2013 issue which portrays a radical monk, U Wirathu being labelled as “The Face of Buddhist Terror”.

Eleven media group reviewed the Time cover story twice in its editorial articles of their daily run newspaper. Furthermore, Eleven group also shared its strong objection of Time’s article on Facebook. In which, U Than Htut Aung, a medical doctor and chief editor of Eleven, accused the Time of betraying media ethics.

As Eleven’s rhetoric articles fuel anger of Burmese netizens and its ultra nationalist offline readers, the mindsets of Buddhist majority which are less discussed are getting worse since those were already well- overwhelmed with hate propagation of Burmese style neo-nazi movements.

YANGON, Myanmar — Upon seeing his photo splashed across the cover of Time magazine with the words “Face of Buddhist Terror,” Myanmar’s most-talked-about monk was unfazed, saying no amount of bad publicity could hurt him.

The 46-year-old is accustomed to — even flattered by — the foreign reporters who steadily parade through his monastery in the city of Mandalay to ask about religious violence that has swept his predominantly Buddhist nation in the last year — fueled in no small part by his anti-Muslim rhetoric.

PETALING JAYA: The recent outbreak of violence involving Myanmar nationals here in Malaysia is being distorted and used to instigate the population back in Myanmar.Blogs and social media platforms such as Facebook are being used to create the false impression that Myanmar nationals are being persecuted in Malaysia.

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In 1936, student leader Aung San (independence architect General Aung San) featured an article titled ‘A hell hound at large’ in Ohway Magazine when he was editor in charge of the magazine.
The article angered the British authorities of the Rangoon University (now Yangon University). Aung San was expelled from university as he was accountable for the article written by student Nyo Mya under the pseudonym ‘Yama Min’ (King of Hell), sparking a nation-wide students’ movement.